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I listen to records almost daily.
Downloads are taking off and it has been 25 years since CD was launched, yet audiophile demand for turntables and vinyl continues unabated. When did you last spin a record?
I generally spin vinyl whenever I'm listening to my system, at some point. I still keep asking myself why spend money on either SACD or DVD-Audio today when there is still great vinyl out there? I'd suggest that you'll be asking this question 10 years from now when the record companies decide they want to sell us our music collection again on another format. The recent advances in CD playback have been very welcome (better CD players and the new breed of outboard upsamplers) but vinyl will be king in my system for the forseeable future.
What is Truth ? as reported from one famous tribunal . . . but I would venture that the translation involved in A-to-D & back again is never going to be perfect. So some of us still spin the old scratchy LPs with pleasure. Until neural audio implants arrive this peculiar behavior will linger, at least among the atavists and troglodytes of an earlier era, lurking in the underbrush.
I usually listen to atleast one record per week. There is something about the process of taking the record sleeve out of the album jacket, the record out of the sleeve, the cleaning the record, the cleaning the stylus and then waiting for the stylus to touch the groove. Maybe its a built up anticipation - but probably its the glorious sound that comes from a good record that it is in very good condition.
I still love many of my vinyl records. But I bought a Wadia CD player a year ago and it sounds better played into the amplifier. To use my Sota turntable I have to connect the pramp which is a lot of trouble going thru the connection process.
I listen to an even mixture of vinyl and CD. My roommate owns a Linn and beats the daylights out of my AR table. I don't mind. I don't think I'll ever stop listening to vinyl. I'm 25 and my roomate's 21. There's still a place for vinyl in the world!